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THE ALGAE THAT WANTED TO MARRY – a story painted by hand in tiles by artist Ana Vilela: This book is translated into five languages ( Portuguese , English, French , German and Spanish) so it can arrive every corner of the world.

iCrowdNewswire - Aug 4, 2016

THE ALGAE THAT WANTED TO MARRY – ANA VILELA

“The algae that wanted to marry ” is a story painted by hand in tiles by artist Ana Vilela.

Livros de Ontem publisher is pleased to introduce you to ” The algae that wanted to marry” a story painted by hand tiles by artist.

This book is translated into five languages ( Portuguese , English, French , German and Spanish) to it can arrive every corner of the world.

“Inspired by fairy tales I imagined the story of “The Algae wants to marry” so that I could delight myself describing and illustrating the sea creatures so present in the best moments of our lives.

After giving birth to my first child, I waited eigth years for a seahorse to get pregnant of a girl. What never happened. I gave birth to a girl and created this love story between an algae and a seahorse. The seahorse gave birth to many children and they lived happily ever after.” Ana Vilela

Livros de Ontem is pleased to invite you to participate in the publishing of this work through crowdfunding contributions that, in this case, act as a pre-purchase of the book and give access to unique and exclusive offerings such as the inclusion of your name in the printed version.

NOTE: The book has the value of 10€ during crowdfunding campaign and 12€ after closing the same.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ana Vilela, with a degree in history (University Nova de Lisboa), attended drawing at Ar.Co and has worked for over 30 years in tile painting. From 1983 to 1989 she restored tiles of several national monuments. Since 1994 she works in her own atelier. She has participated in several solo and collective exhibitions since 1996. She painted Pedro Calapez’s drawings on tiles. She also participated at a collectiion with Maria Keil, Querubim Lapa, Eduardo Nery, Bela Silva and others.

BUDGET AND DUE DATES

Through Crowdpublishing, Livros de Ontem publishing house has the opportunity to develop the work of new authors, risk new concepts and improve writers remuneration.

Thus, Livros de Ontem publishing house does not make any direct profit from Crowdpublishing campaigns. All funds raised are intended to the production of books and improving the sustainability of our operation.

Thanks for being part of this process and help improve the publication of books in Portugal.